MACHINERY IN AGRICULTURE. 17 



ture and adjustment of the finest watch mechanism, 

 or dental work upon the teeth in the mouth of the 

 patient, to the construction of the most stupendous 

 works, and the removal of mountains ; leaving to 

 muscle no place without a swift, untiring, inexhaus- 

 tive competitor, which in every case reduces the em- 

 ployment of manual labor to an extremely low point. 

 Among other reasons why " horses have multiplied 

 more rapidly since the introduction of locomotives 

 than they did before," is the fact that the locomotive 

 in taking possession of the great roads and routes of 

 travel and transportation for long distances, has great- 

 ly increased the travel and transportation on the les- 

 ser and shorter routes which it, as yet, has not been 

 able to cover, and where the horse must still do the 

 largely increased service ; and in the great increase in 

 the business and wealth of our cities and towns, re- 

 quiring a multiplied service and street cars drawn by 

 horses, with the development of luxury in the trading 

 and moneyed classes that finds its expression in the 

 use and cultivation of the horse. But when the loco- 

 motive comes into successful competition with the 

 horse in general farm work, the road and express wag- 

 on, the street car, with the cartman, the pleasure car- 

 riage, the coach, under the saddle, on the race course 

 in every place where the power and force of the 

 horse is now used, as it has been upon the great roads 

 and routes of travel and transportation, then that ani- 

 mal may be cited to illustrate the effect of machinery 

 upon the employment of muscle, and not before. So 

 with the other illustrations used in this connection in 

 the Census Keport, and by others. A one sided, par- 



